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The Umatilla Tribe Ceded Area Juvenile and Adult Passage Improvement Project goal is to provide safe passage for migrating juvenile and adult salmonids and other native species by removing passage obstructions or constructing and maintaining passage facilities at irrigation diversion dams, canals, and other passage barriers and screens. Inadequate passage and flow conditions during critical portions of both juvenile and adult fish migration and rearing life histories have contributed to the extirpation or decline of salmon, steelhead, Pacific lamprey, bull trout and other native fish populations across the CTUIR Aboriginal Title lands in Northeast Oregon and Southeast Washington.
Project efforts support the overall Fisheries Habitat Program goal to protect, enhance, and restore functional floodplain, channel and watershed processes to provide sustainable and healthy habitat for aquatic First Food species (... org/" target="_blank">http://fisherieshabitat.ctuir.org/). Our Fisheries Habitat Program’s hierarchical approach to restoration strategic planning, project development and implementation and monitoring is guided by the “First Foods” DNR Mission and Policy (Quaempts et al 2018), which identifies physical and ecological processes (“key touchstones”) of a highly functional watershed and dynamic river system important for providing water quality and fish habitat that supports First Foods integral for Tribal ceremonies and traditions (Umatilla River Vision, Jones et al. 2008; Upland Vision, Endress et al. 2019).
This project addresses longitudinal “connectivity,” and associated limiting factors and ecological concerns regarding anthropogenic fish passage barriers and entrainment and associated habitat quantity. Passage projects are identified, collated and prioritized from subbasin and subwatershed strategic restoration plans, subbasin plans, recovery plans, State of Washington and Oregon fish passage priority lists, and regional and subbasin level stakeholder technical teams for implementation.
Formerly project 1996-011-00 Walla Walla Juvenile and Adult Passage Improvements, then briefly combined into 2007-396-00. Following signing of the 2008 Columbia Basin Fish Accords, the Umatilla Tribe portion was split out into two separate contracts. Initially, 1996-011-00 was used then later new project 2009-026-00. In 2008, BPA also setup an additional project 2008-201-00, Umatilla Tribe Ceded Land Culvert and Passage Implementation. The two projects were combined in 2018 into one project 2009-026-00 and renamed Umatilla Tribe Ceded Area Juvenile and Adult Passage Improvement Project covering the CTUIR Ceded Area including Walla Walla, Umatilla, North Fork John Day, Grande Ronde and Tucannon subbasins.
Since project inception in 1996, we have made significant contributions to resolving fish passage impacts in the Walla Walla River subbasin and other CTUIR Ceded Area tributaries. Within the Walla Walla subbasin we removed two major diversion dams, constructed or upgraded eight fish ladders at major diversion dams, four ditch consolidations, constructed nine diversion-fish screens and provided funding in support of 427 additional fish screens, multiple stream channel improvements in lower Mill Creek and mainstem Walla Walla River in Corps built flood control project areas, and several passage evaluations. We have also replaced or upgraded three bridges/culverts in the upper Grande Ronde, removed two major dams and replaced or upgraded two bridges/culverts in the Umatilla, and upgraded and replaced three culverts in North Fork John Day subbasins.
Account Type(s):
Expense
Contract Start Date:
03/01/2023
Contract End Date:
02/29/2024
Current Contract Value:
$58,584
Expenditures:
$58,584
* Expenditures data includes accruals and are based on data through 31-Mar-2025.
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Habitat Project Implementation Management and Contract Administration
This work element includes the duties associated with watershed-based program management, and the administrative and technical work by the contractor to fulfill BPA's programmatic and contractual requirements. This includes implementation of the current contract SOW, managing the budget, and satisfying BPA contracting requirements, including preparing and submitting invoices and next year's statement of work and budget, maintaining a property inventory (if applicable), confirming accrual estimates, accounting for cost-share, and completing quarterly reports, etc.
It also includes management, administration, preparation for, and implementation of priority habitat restoration projects: directing the planning and implementation of priority ecological restoration and habitat enhancement projects in the Umatilla watershed, and adaptively managing implementation actions. It may include supervising and training staff and providing professional development; addressing issues presented by various interest groups and county, state, tribal, and federal entities; maintaining licenses/training requirements; responding to information requests and addressing local concerns or unforeseen opportunities and issues as they arise.
The work emphasis expected in this period includes the continuation of tasks, initiated in prior contract periods and continued in the current contract, primarily associated with the design and a phased approach to implementation of the following project(s): development of a mainstem Umatilla Assessment and Strategic Action Plan; several floodplain/river and passage designs in various phases on the mainstem Umatilla River, Birch Creek, and Meacham Creek; and support for construction of the UmaBirch PA-4 large scale floodplain restoration project over 0.9 miles of mainstem Birch Creek (REL103). Details of these efforts are described in more detail in individual SOW work elements.
Identify, prioritize, and select fish passage projects
Passage projects are identified, collated and prioritized for implementation from subbasin and subwatershed strategic restoration plans, subbasin plans, recovery plans, and Washington and Oregon state fish passage priority lists. Projects are reviewed for technical soundness and prioritization independently through regional and subbasin level public and technical review forums including SRSRB Lead Entity and Regional Technical Team (https://snakeriverboard.org/), Mill Creek Working Group (MCWG), Grande Ronde Model Watershed and Atlas Implementation Team (https://www.grmw.org/), John Day Partnership/Atlas and Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board Future Investment Partnership Advisory Review Team (https://www.johndaybasinpartnership.org/About/johndaybasin), and representative CTUIR Fisheries Habitat Program subbasin habitat projects.
Project funds are prioritized and typically dedicated to removing or ameliorating imminent threat or high priority passage projects in the Walla Walla subbasin. Although most of the highest priority irrigation diversion dams, screens and other passage concerns have been addressed in mainstem Walla Walla and lower tributaries (7th-5th order streams), there remains legacy passage and habitat impacts in Corps built flood control reaches in lower Mill Creek and mainstem Walla Walla River through Milton-Freewater, and lower order tributaries that limit and impact juvenile and adult salmon and steelhead migration and survival.
CTUIR has a working list of prioritized passage projects developed with partners and use of a prioritization passage web tool. The working list is updated periodically. These projects are at various levels of planning and design and proposed for future implementation. Current prioritization criteria for project screening includes 1) current conditions are an imminent threat or high priority to salmon and steelhead passage/survival, 2) multiple fish species benefit with emphasis on ESA-listed salmon, steelhead and bull trout populations, 3) significant resource agency support and or cost share, and 4) meets first three criteria and there is an identified sponsorship need or funding gap. CTUIR also works closely with Bonneville Power Administration area project managers and contracting officers to strategically align projects that meet regional and local subbasin restoration priorities and facilitate appropriate funding avenues for contract efficiency. Lastly, CTUIR uses the capital funds to strategically address new bridges or culverts when roads are relocated as part of larger floodplain restoration projects. This fits within our adaptive management strategies for holistic floodplain restoration.
We recently developed a new CTUIR Aboriginal Use Area fish passage sites web application for the purpose of evaluating potential fish passage barriers. The web application is built on the internal ArcGIS Portal Enterprise platform hosted by CTUIR. The application allows for the subset of data from the Oregon and Washington State passage databases (ODFW 2010, 2020; WDFW 2021), along with other physical and biological data, to be viewed, investigated and shared internally across the CTUIR Fisheries Habitat Program and subbasin habitat projects. The CTUIR Fisheries Habitat Program Ceded Area subbasin habitat project leaders work closely with the fish passage specialist project leader to assess and prioritize potential projects and delineate new projects for the CTUIR future passage project list.
In coordination with CTUIR DNR Public Outreach Coordinator and CTUIR Communications Director, subbasin habitat project team, and partners, participate in designing educational materials and displays for public outreach activities, provide tours, workshops, slide programs and oral presentations to landowners, agencies, various interest groups, school groups, education service districts, etc. to promote habitat protection/restoration, and identify and address land use practices detrimental to native fish. To encourage public support and involvement, project staff will prepare news releases regarding ongoing passage restoration efforts.
Project staff will be responsible for leading all aspects of fish passage project planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting within the CTUIR ceded river basins including the Umatilla, Walla Walla, John Day, Grande Ronde, and Tucannon rivers in Northeast Oregon and Southeast Washington.
Purpose is to work closely with the CTUIR Fisheries Habitat Program subbasin habitat project team leads and local passage project sponsors to plan, develop, design, permit and oversee construction to protect and restore floodplain processes and functions, particularly longitudinal connectivity, by removing or ameliorating fish migration barriers on lands within the CTUIR ceded basins. Duties include identifying and prioritizing fish passage projects based on applicable planning documents, comprehensive Tribe, State (e.g. ODFW, WDFW) and local subbasin fish passage inventories and ecological requirements of associated native fish communities (with an emphasis on anadromous salmonids). Provide technical expertise in development and review of partner agency and stakeholder fish passage design specifications and alternatives in CTUIR Usual and Accustomed fishing areas, review of associated hydrological studies and hydraulic modeling, assessment of costs, material, equipment needs and proposed construction methods. Incorporate updated fish passage criteria, technologies and methods into fish passage project planning.
Proposed engineering design, permitting and construction oversight will be managed within the designated subbasins in coordination with project sponsors including the following projects in various levels of project planning, design and proposed implementation (see uploaded CTUIR Ceded Passage Project List for reference):
Umatilla Subbasin
West Birch Creek Dam Removal
West Birch Stanley Creek Culvert Replacement Project
Birch Creek Homer Peterson Dam Removal
Walla Walla Subbasin
Walla Walla River Forks Irrigation Intake & Fish Bypass Project
Walla Walla River Nursery Bridge Sill Notching and Irrigation Diversion Relocation - Phase 2
Walla Walla River Nursery Reach Phase 3 GI Study Management
Mill Creek Gose Street Fish Passage Improvement Project
Mill Creek Concrete Flume Modifications - Division to Roosevelt Project
Mill Creek Weir Section Modification - Roosevelt to Union Project
Grande Ronde Subbasin
Catherine Creek Elmer Dam New Spillway and Fishway Project
Catherine Creek Facility Weir and Fish Ladder Modification Replacement Project
North Fork John Day Subbasin
Desolation Creek Reach 3 Moonshine Creek Arch Culvert
Granite Creek Bull Run Grant County Rd 24 Passage Projects (~5 culverts)
West Birch Creek Haskell Abandoned Irrigation Dam Removal
The project includes removal of a non-functioning concrete diversion dam structure fish barrier and re-grading of the stream channel to a fish passable step-pool configuration. A roughened riffle and six boulder weirs will help maintain channel stability and restore fish passage by limiting the water surface height at each step to 6-inches. One large wood (LWD) structure is proposed using a channel spanning structure type to provide geomorphic functions that will help maintain grade stability immediately downstream of the roughened riffle.
This project is classified as a priority fish passage barrier to address passage/entrainment and habitat quantity as identified and supported in regional guidance documents and Tribal strategic plans:
a. CTUIR. 2016. Birch Creek watershed action plan.
b. ODFW 2019 Fish Passage Priority List (ODFW 2020)
c. NMFS. 2009. Middle Columbia River steelhead distinct population segment ESA recovery plan.
Prepared by National Marine Fisheries Service Northwest Region.
d. NOAA CBPTF. 2020. Goals to Restore Thriving Salmon and Steelhead to the Columbia River Basin
(with recommendations to achieve goals).
The coldwater habitat in the headwaters of West Birch Creek are classified as moderate to high steelhead spawning productivity, however, limited by passage barriers on the mainstem West Birch Creek and Stanley Creek, tributary to West Birch Creek (CTUIR Birch Creek Watershed Action Plan 2016). By removing the West Birch Creek abandoned diversion dam and replacing the Stanley Creek culvert with a bride will provide full juvenile and adult steelhead access, upstream and downstream, 8 miles of steelhead spawning and rearing habitat. This project will also result in improved riverine functions and fish passage for all aquatic species on West Birch Creek and Stanley Creek. The Stanley Creek culvert removal and bridge placement project work statement and associated budget is included in the Umatilla River Basin Anadromous Fish Habitat Enhancement Project 1987-100-01, Master Agreement 73982 CR-360413.
This project will be primarily funded by Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and National Marine Fisheries Service Tribal Passage cost share funding. BPA funds are providing administrative functions and construction planning and oversight.
Submit Progress Report for the period (January 1, 2022) to (December 31, 2022)
A non-technical progress report will be submitted for prior years passage work, primarily to summarize work across Ceded area. This report will summarize work done by all stakeholder sponsors funded by CTUIR on passage projects. Report will benefit tracking overall CTUIR Fisheries Habitat and Passage Program accomplishments, and overall goals, objectives and deliverables.
The non-technical progress report summarizes the project goal, objectives, completed and uncompleted deliverables, problems encountered, lessons learned, and long-term planning. Examples of long-term planning include future improvements, new directions, or any ramping up or ramping down of contract components or of the project as a whole.
Non-technical Progress Reports must conform to BPA guidelines. See the "Non-technical Progress Report" link at: http://www.cbfish.org/Help.mvc/GuidanceDocuments.
The Contractor shall report on the status of milestones and deliverables in Pisces. Reports shall be completed either monthly or quarterly as determined by the BPA COTR. Additionally, when indicating a deliverable milestone as COMPLETE, the contractor shall provide metrics and the final location (latitude and longitude) prior to submitting the report to the BPA COTR.
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